Broadway Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
road in Manhattan, New York City, United States
About Broadway
Broadway is a road with a history reaching back to pre-Columbian times. TheWickquasgeck trail, used by the Native American people by the same name (who lived in the region), followed more or less the same routing as present-day Broadway. TheDutch, who were the first Europeans in the region called itHeeren Wegh(Gentlemen's Way) orHeeren Straat(Gentlemen's Street), and as it becameBritish, they called it Broadway due to it being unusually wide. Broadway has throughout the city's history been a lively street and major thoroughfare. For instance, already in 1832, British writer Fanny Trollope was impressed with its size, shops, awnings, sidewalks and pedestrians. And Broadway and the attractions lining it have kept impressing visitors from around the world to this day. The street name has been
Broadway Travel Guide Sections
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